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"Well, the world has been brutal enough; it had better try a little femininity now." "I hope it will not be more cruel to women." "That is not an argument; that is a stab. I fancy you are altogether skeptical about woman. Do you believe in her education?" "Up to a certain point, or rather, I should say, after a certain point."
They flowed into the hotel in a compact stream of femininity; billows of stout elderly ladies, and dancing ripples of slim young girls, with here and there a side-eddy of thin, middle-aged spinsterhood. Each female thing had a "grip," and of these possessions they built the desk a mountain of volcanic formation, which looked alarmingly subject to eruptions and upheavals.
It was, first of all, say her legs; or, first of all, say the totality of her, the sweet and brilliant jewel of her femininity bursting upon them. Dowager, matron, and maid, conserving their soft-fat muscles or protecting their hot-house complexions in the shade of the hau-tree arbour, felt the immediate challenge of her.
Comte had not read Ouida, who once wrote that when God said, "I will make a helpmeet for him," He was speaking ironically. Comte had associated but very little with women he had theories about them. Small men, with midget minds, know femininity much better than do the great ones. Traveling salesmen, with checkered vests, gauge women as Herbert Spencer never could.
They both came regularly every Sunday, were frantically jealous of one another, tried to outbid each other whenever an opportunity offered, and were both fully convinced that they sighed in vain. She was so different, they felt, from the other specimens of femininity of their acquaintance to whom their weak attentions had sometimes proved acceptable.
However, parents wishing to frighten their daughters away from the stage have naturally enough set up several great bugaboos collectively known as "temptations" individually known as the "manager," the "public," etc. There seems to be a general belief that a manager is a sort of dramatic "Moloch," upon whose altar is sacrificed all ambitious femininity.
The old woman had found her crouching in a doorway, a bewildered little heap of palpitating femininity; and, reading the address upon her collar, and may be scenting a not impossible reward, had thought she might as well earn it for herself. Robina was shocked, disgusted.
In her glance, too, and in the manner of her answers to questions concerning the Oriental, there was a provoking femininity a deliberate and baffling intrusion of the eternal Eve. He stared questioningly across at Doctor McMurdoch and perceived a sudden look of anxiety in the physician's face. Quick as the thought which the look inspired, he turned to Phil Abingdon.
She was the picture of delicate femininity appealingly distressful, and yet to all appearance commercially competent. "At the time I met you you were connected with the government service in Washington, I believe." "Yes, I had a small place in the Treasury Department, but this new administration put me out."
That is ovine, bovine, feline, canine, equine or asinine which belongs to that species, irrespective of sex. In our own species all this is changed. We have been so taken up with the phenomena of masculinity and femininity, that our common humanity has largely escaped notice.
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